The frozen pitch has meant the first session back for the junior girls has been cancelled this morning. Back to normal next week hopefully!

TRRHC is a vibrant, youthful club that is constantly striving to develop and maintain our top class facilities and standards. To do this we are always looking to link in with potential sponsors who may wish to capitalise on the infrastructure and options that we have to offer.

Attached is the sponsor information pack which we use to approach all our potential sponsors. Details on prices and plans can be supplied to any interested parties.

If you know of anyone, or are interested yourself, in sponsoring our fine club, please get in touch as we would be delighted to discuss what option suits you best.

Indoor
The indoor team beat Avoca in the semi-final of the Leinster indoor league to set up a final tie against Railway later that evening. The mixed experience team ran out against a Railway team in their final preparations for Europe, and lost 5-1.
The team for Sundays matches was: Ben McCrea, Stephen Dawson, Ross Canning, Harry Morris, Luke Madeley (injured), Peter McConnell, Ben Epstein, Jody Hosking, David Storey, Dylan Shirley, Freddie Morris, and Nacho Segui, with Scott Crombie and Liam Canning on the sideline

New arrivals
Huge congrats to Alan Bothwell and wife Jean on the birth of their second child, Annie.

International call ups
Well done to Mitch Darling and Johnny Bruton on their call up to the Irish Senior mens squad travelling to Cape Town next week. The camp is part of the preparation for the upcoming World League in February.

The season returned with a bang last weekend, especially for the two mens sides in league action.

The mens 4ths comfortably beat Rathgar 4-0, with Peter Lynch grabbing two goals along with Kris Tan and Stuart Greene. Later in the day the 1st got a huge result coming from 2-1 down to beat Pembroke 3-2. Johnny Bruton nabbed the first goal early before Johnny ‘The Mac’ McCormack popped up with two crackers to seal the win.

On the ladies side, the 1st faced a much changed Trinity 2s side. Steph Baxter scored a wonder goal to earn her player of the match, but Trinity equalised to grab their first point of the season late in the second half. Pembroke got the better of both of our ladies 2s and 4s, winning 2-0 and 3-1 respectively. The 3s meanwhile had a 0-0 stalemate with Clontarf. On Monday night the ladies vets continued their fine season so far with a 6-0 win over Guinness.

All remaining mens teams return this week. The 4s face an 11.30 am trip to Kilkenny, while the 5th are also on the road for a 2.30pm start in North Kildare. The 3s face Glenanne at 1.30 at home, while the 2s face locals Corinthians at 1pm. The mens 1st finish off the day with a 3pm game at home to Glenanne.

On the ladies side, the 1s are in cup action away to Pembroke at 10am. The 3s have the only ladies home game of the day with an 11am start to Railway, while the 4s play Rathgar away at 12.30. The 2s face a double weekend, away to Avoca in the league at 2.15 on Saturday, and home to Navan at 3pm on Sunday

The 31st of January sees the first fundraiser of 2015, with the hosting of a table quiz night!

Questions on all sorts of topics will be on the evening with a cash prize for the eventual winners!

A table of 4 people is €30 with the action kicking off at 8pm!

To pre-book a table, contact Chris at ctsteele01@gmail.com.

Chris has a sample taster of questions up on our Facebook group to test yourselves out. Friends and players from other clubs etc., are all obviously more than welcome!

After a 2 week break, many teams return to league action this weekend!

The ladies 1st take on Trinity away in Santry at 3pm. The 2s play at home at 11am to Pembroke, while the 4s play away to Pembroke at 5pm. The 3s meanwhile, also play at 5pm, at home to Clontarf.

On the mens side the 4ths take on Rather at 1pm at home, before the 1st face Pembroke at 3pm . The remaining mens teams have another week to recover from Christmas excess before their league games return. The 3s & 5s will play a training game on the back pitch instead.

Juniors also return to action with training this Saturday and Sunday, after the girls were delayed by a week with last weeks frost.

u16 trials
Congrats to the 7 Rovers players selected for u16 Irish trials, following the recent interpros! Ben Walker, Alex Flynn, Alex O’Regan, Matthew Walker, Robert McCollum, Nicholas Judge and Peter Lynch were called up to the selection after their performances for Leinster. Congrats!!

Also huge congrats to Niall Denham, names as the Irish u16 boys coach! We are delighted to have our junior girls director of coaching appointed to this role, again having already taken charge of the Leinster u16 boys this year. Well done Niall

EuroHockey Trophy
The match schedule for the Eurohockey Trophy, which will be held in Three Rock between the 22nd and the 25th of May, has been announced and can be seen here

http://www.eurohockey.org/competitions/eurohockey-club-champions-trophy-dublin-men-2015/

Our guys will play their three pool games in the last matches of the day, before finding out their classification on the final day.

In the coming weeks and months we will announce more news and plans to do with this prestigious event, with an emphasis on looking for volunteers over the weekend itself, and fundraising in the lead up to it. A lot of work is being carried out behind the scenes already by Rick Johnson and his committee.

Indoor results
Pete McConnell and his charges have been doing well in the Leinster indoor competition over the last few weeks.
They beat Wicklow and Avoca before setting up a final round tussle with Railway Union which they lost 11-2.

We are pleased to announce the running of the Celtic Sports Academy hockey camps in the club over the next few months.

The camps, organised and run by Chris Steele, the Irish u16 boys coach and our own development officer Niall Denham, and our South African international player and coach Jody Hosking, will take place over the mid-term and Easter breaks.

The camps are for 11-16 year olds. We have a variety of prices are on offer to incorporate parents busy schedules into the day. We are offering a breakfast, and/or afternoon club for those who are at work, or may not be able to drop off their children at the allotted times. The breakfast club includes a cereal breakfast, while the afternoon camp involves other practicle activities.

Dates on offer are as follows:
Feb mid-term:
Monday 16th Feb – Friday 20th of Feb
Easter week 1:
Monday 30th March – Thursday 2nd April
Easter week 2:
Tuesday 7th April to Friday 10th of April

Prices are as follows:
Breakfast club (8-9am): €37.50
Hockey camp (9am -3pm): €110
After camp club (3-4.30pm): €50

To book places, or if you have any queries please contact Chris at celticsportsacademy@gmail.com.

Now that Santa has visited the juniors and the Christmas jumpers were out on show last Saturday night, its officially the Christmas break for the majority of our members.

All within the council and committee would like to extend our warmest wishes to our members for the Christmas period. We hope you have a peaceful, and happy time, and a wonderful New Year.

We hope everyone has a good break but is looking forward to the return of hockey already! The second half of the season will be packed with activity as we have plenty of cup 1/4 finals lined up, the club dinner on March 21st, hosting the Leinster Senior Cup finals, scores of league games, the vets fest, and of course, the EuroHockey Trophy all still to come!!

We look forward to seeing everyone in 2015.
Merry Christmas and a very happy New Year

It may not have been a Friday, but the 13th of December wasnt the luckiest of days for the senior side of the club.

The morning frost played havoc with fixtures around Leinster, with many Rovers teams falling foul of the weather too. The mens 2s, 3s, 4s and 5s were all called off, as was the ladies 2s and 4s.

Indeed only 3 games on the senior side went ahead, all against YMCA. Christmas cheer ended up with YM for the most part as they came away with wins against both our mens and ladies 1st, beating them 2-1and 1-0 respectively. The ladies 3s however were victorious, coming out as 3-1 winners.

Thankfully the weather was fine for Sunday and Santas visit to the junior Christmas parties! Over 100 children came and with the help of all our volunteers and TY students enjoyed afternoons of games and sweets. Many thanks to all who helped, including Siobhan and Grace, for rounding up the volunteers! Earlier in the day the u16 girls drew 1-1 with Mount Anville

For the senior side of the club, the weekend finishes the first half of the season with a bit of a stutter as most of our teams look forward to the Christmas break. The one remaining fixture is the mens 1st game against Rathgar, which has been brought forward from Saturday to tomorrow night at 8pm at home.